Far From Madding Crowd

                                           

  Thomas Hardy.

                     

              

 

     Far From madding crowd published in 1874 and it become his first novel to be popular with the public and the successes of far from madding crowd brought him some financial success. In the novel of far from madding crowd .This philosophy of life clearly reflected. He believes that “Human being is initially tragic creature that is destine to suffer”. The philosophy of Hardy is life is not bed of roses but dad of thrones. This the perspective of Hardy towards life and therefore in all his novel such as  The mayor of caster bridge , Tess of D’Urbervilles , Return of native .Most of the characters including  protagonist suffer because of therefore own follies of sometimes due to the unfavorable circumstances of life.

                          

In the far from madding Crowd both the protagonist Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba in the several stages of their life suffer Gabriel Oak who is very kind at heart and well mannered suffers a lot with the course of time initially he hopes to become a prosper Shepherd but his  hopes of becoming a prosper shepherd are rusted or destroyed because once he faces a tragedy.

      Gabriel Oak:- “ Thank God I am not married: What would she have done in the poverty . Now coming upon me!” Oak is now.

                      Oak is now left with no money after dealing with his personal tragedy he also had to face the failure in love because he loved Bathsheba all hearty and Bathsheba rejects his proposal called bloodily.

                     Gabriel Oak who use to drink himself is a prospered shepherd now is forced to work for Bathsheba on her farm.

         On the other hand Bathsheba’s life is wrecked all most completely by her marriage to Troy. Bathsheba fails to find true love and loyal man for her .She chooses troy to spend her rest of the life with and Troy proves her decision and makes suffer mentally with courses of the time.

                  Not only Bathsheba and Oak but Blodwood and the antagonist Troy also suffers 

               The rose is Red

              The Violet blue

              Carnations is sweet

              And so are you.

Blodwood who already had suffer failure in love life hopes for the better future with Bathsheba and he madly loves Bathsheba and by any cost want to marry her towards end of the novel .We reader also think that Bloodwood will surely get Bathsheba as his wife but his dream is destroy with the arrival of troy and ultimately we see Bloodwood in jail for shooting troy. Troy the antagonist who become the reason for the suffering of two young lady fanny and Bathsheba also suffers after the death of fanny and ultimately troy is killed by Blodwood.

              Fanny Robin who loves troy unconditionally suffers badly In the last few days of her life ultimately due to the weak physic she dies.

              Thus the characters like Oak, Bathsheba, fanny, Blodwood, fanny etc. Suffers in one of the other way because of variety of reasons.    

Themes of the far from madding Crowd.

                           

    

1)Unrequited love:-

           Much of the plot of  far from madding crowd depend on unrequited love by one person for another that is not mutual in that other person and the other person does not feel love in returned.

               In the novel in the few chapters the love that Gabriel Oak had for Bathsheba was one sided love and when he loses all his wealth. He is free wonder anywhere in search of work but he go to wealtharbury because it is in the direction that Bathsheba has gone after that Oak gets a job in Bathsheba’s farm when he all the time consoles Bathsheba in her troubles and supports her in tending the farm with no sign that he will ever have her love in return because his love was unconditional and unflinching.

                         Blodwood also had unrequited love for Bathsheba and the reason for his love was valentine card which was sender by Bathsheba and therefore Blodwood had good reason to believe that she might love him but Bathsheba keeps on telling him that she will not marry him as she does not love him .

                     Bathsheba also suffers a similar unrequited love for troy she loved troy all hearty and wanted him as her life partner to get troy he also lose her vanity but ultimately she is dumped by troy after their marriage Bathsheba feels that troy is mistreating could not stop herself from loving troy even after the rummer of troys death her feeling for troy was the same.

    2) Catastrophe:-

             This novel focuses also that catastrophe can occur at any time and treating to change the lives of the character the most obvious example accuse when Oak flock of ship is destroyed by circumstances, in which because of Oaks inexperience dog. All sheep’s falls in to the chalk pit.

                             Because of that incident just in one night Oak’s future as an independent farmer is destroyed.

   3) Social Hierarchy:-

Far FROM Madding Crowd offers modern reader a clear picture of how social position was important in England in 19 century. The novel is set in idealistic setting in a ruler English village. The character of Bathsheba was very much concern regarding her social status and therefore at one stage of her life .She decides to give an approval to the marriage proposal of Blodwood because she thinks that their marriage would enhance her social position even if she never loved Blodwood .She got ready to marry him.

               In chapter 4 when Oak was rejected by Bathsheba he regretted for the first time of being an ordinary man with “No high social status”.

   4) Tragedy:-

                      The novel reflects Hardy’s affinity to tragedy .Tragedy is one of the most evident think not only far from madding crowd but almost in all Hardy novel .There are many tragic situation which are in enough to transform the novel in to a deeply touching tragedy .This is profane by tragic ends of the three main character of fanny, Troy and Blodwood but the protagonist Oak is saved from all the tragedy throw Bathsheba faces many tragedy ultimately see over comes them later.

  5) Feminism:-

                              The novel highlights strength of the lead female character Bathsheba she is portrayed as strong practical, capable and independent a farm which is basically a man’s domain she seen a women of substance and she hardly cylinder herself to favorable circumstances.   

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